Patrick Stokes

Patrick Stokes is lecturer in philosophy at Deakin University. His research focuses on topics such as personal identity, time, death, and moral psychology. His books include The Naked Self and Kierkegaard's Mirrors. He tweets at @patstokes.

Moral arguments can be used to defend ideas that many of us find abhorrent - just think of torture. But I don't see how anyone who takes ethics seriously could argue that honour killings can be justified.